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The German Army launches an diversionary attack from the Rheims-Soisson salient and increases the pressure on Paris. But the Allies knew about the attack and for the first time, they effectively counter the German Stormtrooper tactics and even counter-attack along the line.
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@1996koke 6 лет назад

Wow, it only took 3 failed Carpathian offensives, 2 failed attempts to take Serbia, 1 failed offensives at the Trentino, 1 failed offensives at the Piave and hundreds of thousands of austri-hungarian casualties to finally force Hotzebdorf to retire

@colinwolf9730 6 лет назад

Your forgetting the Battle of Galicia in 1914, and how Conrad pulled his divisions out of the Eastern Front which helped Brusilov succeed. It wasnt quite as much as 12 Rumbles on the Isonzo for Cadorna.

@TheDemonQueen-cc1rn 6 лет назад

jorge .espinosa de los monteros If Franz Ferdinand was still alive he would've had Conrad executed by March 1915

@1996koke 6 лет назад

XxSuperSaiyan GirlxX well, Franz Ferdinand died until 1916, by then Conrad have committed a lot of failures

@TheDemonQueen-cc1rn 6 лет назад

jorge .espinosa de los monteros He died 1914

@1996koke 6 лет назад

XxSuperSaiyan GirlxX my mistake, I confused him with Franz joseph

@angelocortez4471 6 лет назад

Ludendorff: *THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS ALLIED COUNTERATTACK* Random soldier: Sir, they've launched a counterattack! Ludendorff: *SAY WHAT?!!*

@ihernandez4234 6 лет назад

It's just a training exercise! Nothing to report.

@troilusmaximus7547 6 лет назад

NANI?!

@mammuchan8923 4 года назад

Ludendorff : Fire that random soldier or I will resign!

@colinwolf9730 6 лет назад

"For Conrad Von Hotenzdorf, this war is over". One of the most important statements Indy has made in 4 years....no more rumbles, punishment expeditions, , or carpathian winter offensives. This is going to a very different war now, and considering Conrad's been featured since 2014/1914... a very hallow place is left,, and I have a feeling on Conrad's birthday... this war will be over.

@82dorrin 6 лет назад

"But for Conrad Von Hotzendorf, this war is over." Comedy will never be the same... :(

@colinwolf9730 6 лет назад

We all knew it was coming after Cadorna was fired... I remember the Battle of Galicia where he first Hotenzdorfed it up.

@TheCimbrianBull 6 лет назад

+Colin Wolf Fear not! For although he may be retired he will now go on tour as DJ Hötzi! Partyyyy! :-)

@-et37- 6 лет назад

Damn I just realized what day his birthday was

@Azhini 6 лет назад

"Hotenzdorfed" is my new favourite verb

@baron_von_brunk 6 лет назад

In my neighborhood in Queens, NY, there's a World War 1 memorial in a small park. On a plaque is a list of former residents of my town who were unfortunate casualties. One night, my morbid curiosity piqued my fancy, so I got out my phone and googled the names of most of the fallen soldiers listed on the plaque. I found archived scans of newspaper articles about the casualties, and surprisingly, the majority of them died of the Spanish Flu at American Army bases.

@danm936 6 лет назад

Julius von Brunk it is I absolutely amazing how many people worldwide died of the Spanish flu epidemic

@baron_von_brunk 6 лет назад

Jimmy Jon That's why during each winter, if one of my coworkers so much as sneezes in my general direction, I chug half a bottle of NyQuil. Early detection is key!

@XKCDism 6 лет назад

Thats interesting.

@comet1970 6 лет назад

My grandmother's brother had the flu when he was in the Army in 1918. The infected soldiers were just laid out on cots in large tents in Georgia. He survived, but my grandmother said he was never very healthy after that and he died in 1934.

@baron_von_brunk 6 лет назад

Bommel Mapping I'm flattered that you mistook my rugged manly beardness for that of the mutually handsome Flo, but sadly, I am not Flo nor Indy.

@dams6829 6 лет назад

4:27 look at Foch spinning that cane.

@hqlife5128 6 лет назад

I know right? so cool

@marcbalaram383 6 лет назад

Dams he was trolling the enemy ;D

@melari5499 6 лет назад

100 years and 1 day ago my great grandfather Lee was shot at Chateau-Thierry. He was evacuated and survived to return home to Missouri. He started a family, and never spoke of his experiences, other than a joke about about having a bit of lead in him. May he, and all of the veterans of the Great War rest in peace, and may their memory be a blessing.

@melari5499 6 лет назад

John Flores Thank you. That’s very kind.

@melari5499 6 лет назад

wood1155 Definitely. It’s impossible to imagine much of what they went through. Surviving shelling was often down to nothing but luck, and I can’t even fathom something like drumfire.

@gabemissouri Год назад

@@melari5499Same, my great grandfather was Croatian, he moved to the states with his wife because he wanted a better life. He enlisted in the American Army and was a machine gunner. He earned a Silver Star and Purple Heart. He was injured in the battle of the Marne. After the war he moved to Kansas City Missouri with his wife. He went on to have several children. My family and I still live in Missouri to this day.

@CBfrmcardiff 6 лет назад

President Theodore Roosevelt's son was shot down 100 years ago this week. The former President was reported as saying on behalf of himself and his wife that they were sad, but glad their fighter pilot son had had the chance to show his mettle. Roosevelt's 3 other sons were also serving in US forces.

@natekaufman1982 6 лет назад

CBfrmcardiff Teddy Jr. was the commander of the 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division.

@82dorrin 6 лет назад

"But for Conrad Von Hotzendorf, this war is over." Comedy will never be the same... :(

@varovaro1967 6 лет назад

Indy who started this RU-vid war is still here... !

@RahellOmer 6 лет назад

Al Mol LOL

@EuropeYear1917 6 лет назад

Indy is going nowhere... He will make it through the war alive. But as for me? I quote Shakespeare's "Hamlet": "Horatio, I am dead; Thou livest; report me and my cause aright to the unsatisfied."

@jaxone2639 6 лет назад

I just had a dream where i was fighting in WWI and I'm not kidding, Indy Neidel was narrating 😂😯

@darkhorsearmor3513 6 лет назад

Jaxon Evans wow, that actually sounds freaky

@jaxone2639 6 лет назад

Darkhorsearmor it was i was so confused when i woke up. And then not even 3 minutes later i get the notification of this video

@3-DtimeCosmology 6 лет назад

Hilarious!

@Mr_Fancypants 6 лет назад

so who you fighting for? not those tea slurping croutons i hope?

@Lv-sl3rm 6 лет назад

Average Consumer Not really relevant because no one other than you brought that up.

@craigeast3682 6 лет назад

You have to feel sorry the "Few French soldiers" who were left in the forward trenches 😢

@perfectlyfine1675 6 лет назад

craig east forget about the other ten million people that died, let's mourn those few French soldiers.

@Salty-Doggy 5 лет назад

@@perfectlyfine1675 the point is they were basically left for dead the German artillery would shell the weak front line and not the main defensive line behind it

@WildBillCox13 6 лет назад

Churchill is still there, Drunk in his bed, While visions of Galipoli, Dance through his head". --Anon

@-et37- 6 лет назад

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the death of Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s Son. He was a pilot on the Western Front and was shot down on the 14th.

@ultraranger1286 6 лет назад

Remember a time when politicians would actually send their sons into battles before telling their people to fight a war?

@alexv6324 6 лет назад

UltraRanger Not to necessarily disagree with your assessment, but Teddy Roosevelt and his line where a special breed, even for then.

@WildBillCox13 6 лет назад

Read Kermit's official account of his and his father's travels hither and yon.

@3-DtimeCosmology 6 лет назад

RIP Quentin.

@natekaufman1982 6 лет назад

Teddy Roosevelt, Jr. was also a US Army officer. He fought at Cantigny and later commanded the 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division "Big Red One". In World War II, BG Teddy Roosevelt Jr. would land at Utah beach with the 4th Infantry Division "Ivy."

@Z12IT 2 года назад

My grandfather fought in the 2nd Marne battle within the Italian expeditionary army division. He was 18 years old.

@onesmoothstone5680 2 года назад

My grandfather, a son of German immigrants, was a Artillery Cpt. & earned a Silver ☆ & Purple Heart during this battle. 3rdID. I served in the 3rdMID from '86-'89. He was gassed; mustard gas as I was told. Suffered the rest of his life from lung problems. Died in 1973.

@truly_I_say 2 месяца назад

B Co 603rd, 3rd ID brother here. Rock of The Marne!

@zexal4217 6 лет назад

Only a temporary setback, the allies will surely be unable to push any further and even if they do, they'll still break against the mighty Hindenburg line.

@Linx_82 6 лет назад

Zexal42 we shall see!

@joeyhunter7571 6 лет назад

They shall never defeat the Hindenburg Line!

@James--Parker 6 лет назад

Yea! The allies plans for 2019 offensives are utterly delusional. The war will be over by Christmas.

@3-DtimeCosmology 6 лет назад

The German Empire cannot lose. Impossible!

@caesaraugustus3749 6 лет назад

The siegfried line will never fall!

@Realkeepa-et9vo 6 лет назад

Without Conrad von Hotzendorf, the central powers won't last for chrismas.

@VladTevez 6 лет назад

_It's the end of the world as they knew it_

@82dorrin 6 лет назад

"But for Conrad Von Hotzendorf, this war is over." Comedy will never be the same... :(

@VladTevez 6 лет назад

Onyx1916 Conrad was an idea, and ideas never die!

@luxembourgishempire2826 6 лет назад

V. Athanasiou I see you everywhere on great war videos

@Ralph-yn3gr 6 лет назад

And I feel fine.

@RahellOmer 6 лет назад

Harold Saxon lolz yeah. A tiny bit in my brain, after catching up with the series, said: "yess, we can now reply to Athanasiou's interesting trivia/comments he throws around every video"

@kevinoftedahl4182 6 лет назад

Quote from I believe Machiavelli "War always starts when you want it to, but never ends when you want it to".

@bondapovon 4 года назад

As Madame Foch remarked in her diary, 'The Marne doesn't like the Germans, for them the river is decidedly fatal.' (Source is the Cambridge History volume 'Foch in Command')

@roadrash3101 Год назад

My great-grandfather fought in these battles. Carl Christian Schwisow, Company A, 8th Machine Gun Battalion for the United States Army, 3rd Division. I have his full uniform set with personal accoutrements that were undoubtedly with him through this unimaginable ordeal. He was paid $26/month according to his soldier's paybook, after his life insurance was deducted.

@Ashfielder 6 лет назад

Goodbye Conrad, it’s been a whirlwind.

@rosaria8384 6 лет назад

_By July 1918, the German Army had total control of the Soissons - Chateau-Thierry roads. These were vital lifelines for the German soldiers based on the Marne salient. Fearing an offensive in this region, the French planned to force the Germans out of this area. They would make use of this war's most brilliant new weapons: tanks._

@earthenjadis8199 6 лет назад

Can I just say everyone - can we put to bed the myth that the French Army was on the verge of collapse in 1918 and no longer a capable attacking force? That seems to be the common story on Anglo-Saxon histories - 1914 and 1915: French get slaughtered needlessly in frontal assaults on trenches, 1916: Verdun ,1917: Mutiny and 1918 - French sitting despondent and shell-shocked in their trenches while Britain and the US win the war. If anything, in 1918 France was the first modern allied army. More tanks, planes and artillery to make up for the precious manhood they lost so early in the war. A French soldier of 1914 is closer to a French soldier of 1870 than he was to a French soldier of 1918.

@hlynnkeith9334 6 лет назад

Earthen Jadis, "A French soldier of 1914 is closer to a French soldier of 1870 than he was to a French soldier of 1918." That is an excellent observation. By summer 1918, the French soldier had put the mutiny behind him, had regained his heart, and was ready to attack again.

@eeeboytvr 6 лет назад

Sadly this is the reason for the French soldier losing his life in 1914.

@angloirishcad 5 лет назад

'the first modern allied army', no. That would be the British Army as proven by the hundred days advance which broke the Hindenberg Line. Your broader point about the the French being written out of history probably has some truth to it though

@cavscout888 4 года назад

A bit late, but three French divisions were attacked. The one partnered with the Americans used new tactics and (surprisingly) held, while the other two divisions lost and retreated. Like we've seen most of the time. Only one constant changed... As far as "being near collapse," maybe not total uncontrolled rout like they'd face 20 years later; but the Germans were near Paris, leaders saw themselves as in a very bad situation, and talk had already gone to losing Paris within high command. The assessment from Pershing was likely accurate, that the 'allies' wouldn't hold out much longer without a ton of hope ('that millions of American soldiers were on the way').

@davidchardon1303 4 года назад

@@angloirishcad The British Army was based on the French Army. Also, in the Hundred days Advance, the French Army was still the main force.

@ErikBramsen 6 лет назад

Oh, no! They fired Connie!

@sebastianhartung4407 6 лет назад

they took his job!

@Andvare 6 лет назад

Too bad he wasn't fired out of a cannon, preferably five years earlier.

@gravijta936 6 лет назад

After the end of the war, will there be a DVD release of the whole series of The Great War? Or at least an episode from beginning to end of the war?

@IdesofMarch223 6 лет назад

Gravijta A BluRay edition that breaks down all the videos into years and specials would be incredible. I’d pay $150 for a complete set!

@oddballsok 6 лет назад

for sure..

@kuoseis 6 лет назад

there is, not a dvd but all the videos are in youtube.

@IdesofMarch223 6 лет назад

KOLMEKAKKONE Well yes, that is quite obvious. However, what if one wanted to watch them with no internet connection and have them available for say someone like myself who travels extensively and has poor connection in some developing regions? Plus, monetizing them in that frame would allow Indy and Co. to finance another series! Perhaps WW2?

@kuoseis 6 лет назад

well, after reading your point, it would be pretty nice.

@merdiolu 6 лет назад

Ludendorff gives assurances "Oh don't worry , Entante is finished , they are too weak to counter attack" Counter attack starts at Marne. Ferdinand Foch screams all the way from Soissons to Spa , Belgium where German High Command HQ was established "SUPRIIIISE"

@frauleinbeth Год назад

My great grandfather, Patrick Henry Ashley, was there. Came home to WV and lived a simple life but was a hard man

@digitalbrentable 6 лет назад

Wow, best episode yet. Love that reflection on how somehow in all this chaos we've transited across the threshold into modern war. The old guard that started the fight are out, this is a new kind of war, and history will never be the same. Never thought of WWI like that.

@Crimethoughtfull 4 года назад

I know, silly sentimentality, but it does make me a bit happy to hear over the last several episodes (and Specials) how the Americans went from a nothing of a force, with no air-force to speak of, seemingly ignorant of everything...to a force to be reckoned with, having high morale, determination, and ability!

@domagojgreguric6957 2 года назад

It is interesting how the deadlock of 1914-1918, elevated the fighting forces in the Western Fronts and their general staffs to an unbelievable level of fighting war and plugging the gaps, in order to stop the enemy offensives. Every mistake could be fatal and yet they always rearranged the lines and promptly dispatched reserves. How no actual breakthrough was done for those four years is just unreal. Even in the end, with German forces clearly on the retreat and disintegrating, there was still no totl breakthrough and defeat. Although Ludendorff predicted that may happen and urged the armistice.

@dioni5580 6 лет назад

The Tsar's family was murdered, not executed. They committed no crime. Even at the french revolution the king and the queen were put under trial first and there children left alive because they were innocent

@semperfi1587 4 года назад

Soviets don't place a high premium on human life, surprisingly.

@901Sherman 3 года назад

‘No crime’. Bruh, the sheer incompetence demonstrated by the Tsar before or after the war was basically one big crime in it of itself. And let’s not forget, Tsar Nicholas II was fully aware of his shortcomings and could've searched for advice, guidance, or any other sort of help, but no. He decided to just roll with it cuz of some ‘divine will’ or something like that. Yeah, his execution was unjustified and his family damn well didn't deserve it either but come on, how could anyone NOT see it coming…

@billyosullivan3192 11 месяцев назад

@@901Shermanat least he abdicated and didn't plunge the country into civil war unlike the Bolsheviks

@WildBillCox13 6 лет назад

Handsome Hermann! 22 Entente flies and counting! I can hear his motor overhead . . . putsch putsch putsch putsch . . . .

@canag0d 6 лет назад

@3:45 “Joseph T Dickman” 🤣

@jiveassturkey8849 4 года назад

My great uncle got severely wounded during this in the Champagne-Marne region during a German attack on July 15, 1918. He was in the Rainbow Division, 167th infantry regiment, 4th Alabama National Guard.

@grahamturner2640 6 лет назад

And later on, many influential people involved in WW1 would become their country’s future leaders (i.e. Paul von Hindenburg becoming German President).

@RahellOmer 6 лет назад

Graham Turner yeah also like that German flying ace, Göring. Or Geneneral Petain...

@thehungrywolf3323 6 лет назад

Or first lord of the admiralty Winston Churchill

@chagui5253 6 лет назад

or De Gaulle

@Gordons1888 6 лет назад

Or Philipe Petain in Vichy

@MrTohawk 6 лет назад

And other people who still had roles to play like MacArthur

@garywemmer9342 Год назад

The passion of the narrator, is unparalleled!!!!! Keep it coming!!!!!

@thatonecrytian8997 6 лет назад

6:14 Does that French fellow have a pet rock?

@greenmountainhistory7335 6 лет назад

That One Crytian yes his name is monsieur rockaguè

@niksarass 6 лет назад

Dude wartime is harsh, particularly in french trenchs, we try to keep the morale whatever way possible :)

@Mr_Fancypants 6 лет назад

he forgot to feed him and his rock died 1 week later after filming. We will never forget and sharis monsieur brickinton.

@eeeboytvr 6 лет назад

I thought the rock was called Pierre ;)

@thatonecrytian8997 6 лет назад

Perhaps he was revived and given a new name.

@blackmesa232323 6 лет назад

#FreeMyNiggaConradVonHotzendorf

@ChengZiYun 3 года назад

LOL

@brokenbridge6316 4 года назад

Your summing up of the leaders the helped start this war was great Indy. I loved listening to it. Great job.

@YvonTripper 6 лет назад

I can't believe that this show killed off two of my favourite characters (Hotzendorf and Czar Nicholas) in a single episode -- and it's not even the season finale! I hope they don't run out of ideas for Season Five.

@tomasziskierka9557 4 года назад

There are gosspis about this show cancelation.After +4 years many actors got tired.

@bwminich 6 лет назад

I did not know Douglas MacArthur was involved in this war. It’s amazing how many of WWII’s principal actors were quite involved in The Great War.

@mikewatkinson1996 6 лет назад

"For Conrad von Hotzendorf, this war is over...is what Hotzendorf said when he got home and looked in the mirror. A single tear ran down his cheek, yet he balled his fists in a rage. Because Hotzendorf is gone, the war is now completely lost by the Central Powers. But Hotzendorf knows Hotzendorf did his best to bring victory.............Hotzendorffffffff!!!" - Conrad von Hotzendorf, to himself, 1918

@BarnabusBarbarossa 6 лет назад

Among the leaders from the start of the war, one notable who's still in power at this point is France's President Raymond Poincaré. Though of course his role in guiding the world toward the conflict is debateable. It'd be nice if you did a bio episode on him.

@varana 6 лет назад

Also, during the Third Republic, the office of President of the Republic had much less power than today.

@BarnabusBarbarossa 6 лет назад

It had some indirect influence, though, and Poincaré was definitely one of the Third Republic's more proactive presidents. Some (admittedly mostly Central Powers sympathisers and Poincaré's political opponents) have pointed to his official visit to Tsar Nicolas during the time of the Sarajevo crisis as laying the groundwork for Russia's declaration of war. I do find this idea highly questionable, but still worth addressing in this series with a bio episode.

@blueband8114 6 лет назад

Bugger, would not want to be in those 1st line trenches, just sacrifices.

@jamesrogers47 6 лет назад

The *Red Shirts" of the first world war. Imagine being assigned to the forward trenches, discovering how undermanned they are, then realizing that you really are to be nothing more than cannon fodder. It took stoic courage to hold in the face of near certain death.

@Lttlemoi 6 лет назад

I wonder if being sent to the first line trenches was imposed as a punishment.

@coryhall7074 6 лет назад

They weren't really trenches in the sense of a unified line. They were strongpoints, platoon sized fortifications with 360 fields of fire and close enough to one another to support each other. There were communications trenches leading back to the main line - themselves covered by machine guns and frequently laden with explosives to deter German pursuit - so the goal of the first line was less as a sacrifice and more as a speedbump, to slow down, disorganize and bloody the German advance before it hit the main line. That said, casualties were heavy.

@annaboudreauwoodside4723 4 года назад

I still can't believe my Grandpa survived this! 103rd Inf - The Rock of Marne. Those wonderful men from Maine!! :)

@RTK-so2wf 6 лет назад

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. - Nicholas II of Russia

@hlynnkeith9334 6 лет назад

RTK 2016, And Nicholas spent the rest of his life proving the truth of that statement.

@fhsreelfilms 6 лет назад

Great video as always. You mentioned the heavy Allied casualties during the Soissons Offensive. Here's an example of that: the US 26th Infantry Regiment, part of the 1st Infantry Division, endured about 50% casualties as they advanced forward with French tanks. The regiment's commanding officer died during the attack as well. The fighting was extremely intense.

@tomnook4048 6 лет назад

Please cover The Polar Bear Expedition!!!!

@danm936 6 лет назад

T.E. Lawrence I second that

@gunsbeersmemes Год назад

Man I miss the format of this channel. I wish the World War II channel was like this

@fuzzydunlop7928 6 лет назад

"Joseph T Dickman" sounds like a Monty Python letter-writer.

@neds3528 Год назад

My great grandfather fought in this battle 2nd calvary. He was a kind man and apparently never talked about it. RIP Rochester Judson Nettles.

@heathmeikle4603 6 лет назад

What is to happen once the war ends... I love this show :(

@luxembourgishempire2826 6 лет назад

Heath Meikle this channel ends

@runevverhartvig6340 6 лет назад

Well they continue with wwII... dunno if that is any consolation ;)

@Mr_Fancypants 6 лет назад

there is still the spanish civil war. And the aftermath of ww1. Just because it ended didn't meen it was fully over. Wasen't there also a civil war in Russia going on?

@indianajones4321 6 лет назад

Some Who did what in World War One suggestions: Captain George Patton Major General Douglas MacArthur General John Pershing Sergeant Alvin York Brian Horrocks

@tomnook4048 6 лет назад

Indiana Jones yes!!!

@82dorrin 6 лет назад

Also, Indiana Jones!

@diablog1621 6 лет назад

Please do Horrocks

@adaw2d3222 6 лет назад

Richard O'Connor, one of the more brilliant officers in WW2.

@indianajones4321 6 лет назад

DIABLOG Yes his ww1 story is very interesting

@mammuchan8923 4 года назад

Also gone, one of the original “players” Gavrilo Princip. I am sure he lived out the last years of his young life in misery in prison, with little to no news of the outside, he probably never the realised the full extent of the Armageddon that erupted after those 2 fateful shots. A very tragic figure.

@JC-pu1ej 6 лет назад

Please remember Major Jesse Walton Wooldridge as the most decorated line Officer in the AEF for his actions at the Second Battle of The Marne.

@AdrianMartinez-gq7ne 3 года назад

The US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division is still called “The Rock of the Marne” for their role in that battle

@Javiercastillo-tw4ce 6 лет назад

Wow, i discovered you thru history buffs channel (indy made a guest appearance), and just finished binging all your previous weeks. You are awsome... i will try to support in patreon... keep it going... thanks!

@Gordons1888 6 лет назад

It’s very morbid but when I was at Disney land all I could think about was the people who died in the battle of the Marne

@WhiteCamry 6 лет назад

That's a flipped image of MacArthur @ 2:10

@ezekiel3626 6 лет назад

It’s an interesting difference between the first and second World War that the first had almost all of the top leadership change but the second had almost none.

@randomclouds4404 5 лет назад

Chamberlain to Atlee. Daladier to De Gaulle. Roosevelt to Truman. Hitler to Donitz. Mussolini to Parri. Tojo to Suzuki. There were a lot of changes.

@sinfido 6 лет назад

Just realizing how much the world changed since the start of the war is mindblowing.

@devildoggo6012 6 лет назад

This is one of the highlights of my week

@The_Jawnski 6 лет назад

RIP Quentin Roosevelt

@xKronos300x 6 лет назад

There's a story that the Italian mathmetician Vilfredo Pareto was discussing statistics with one of Italy's generals. Pareto asked, "What makes a great general?" and the answer was, "One who wins three major battles in succession." "And how many generals are great generals?" Answer: "About one in eight." Pareto: "If the chance of winning is half, the chance of winning three in a row is the reciprocal of two cubed, or one in eight. Statistics, my dear general, not generalship."

@skoopsro7656 6 лет назад

Excellent work Indy and Crew

@andersbrixserup7718 6 лет назад

love this programme

@truly_I_say 2 месяца назад

My last duty station in active duty was with 3rd ID. the 3rd is very serious about their history. Here's to all my brothers and sisters past, present, and future in the D Co 2-3 and B Co 603rd. Top of the Rock! Rock of the Marne!

@SputnikRX 6 лет назад

Rest in peace Nicholas and family.

@WaywardVet 10 месяцев назад

Rock of the Marne, baby! Proud to have served in that division almost a century later.

@mihailkondov4773 6 лет назад

What am I supposed to do with my Cristmas Conrad von Hotzensocks now Indy?! My life will never be the same again!

@zeanamush 6 лет назад

Where so close to the 100 day offensive. I don't want this channel to end. It has been a huge part of my life since 2015.

@elvagabundo2478 6 лет назад

The French were in the ascendancy, the summer was coming to the end and so was the war

@individuum4494 6 лет назад

I've been fighting the war on the channel since September 2014, since the first battle of the marne. I've lived through these horrible years and would've never thought that we germans would be beaten again at the marne. It seems like the war is lost, but I will still fight the great war on RU-vid until the end ...

@ZER0ZER0SE7EN 2 года назад

With so many of the initial national leaders gone -- this is not the old war -- this is "Modern War!"

@GerasimSimov 4 года назад

"But for Conrad Von Hotzendorf, this war is over." So that was the turning point of the war

@DeathOnSernpidal 6 лет назад

It will be fun to watch Ludendorff cracking in the following weeks.

@fudgeman48 5 лет назад

Rock of the Marne! I've been so excited for this episode since I started watching this channel

@dylanf8591 6 лет назад

Versailles is pretty soon.

@AaronB99999 6 лет назад

Awesome summation.

@dumptrump3788 6 лет назад

Has anyone noticed the guy at 1m 8s pointing up to the sky? It looks like he's pointing exactly at the flight path of the shell & I suspect it's to show his colleague how you can see the shell in flight from such a vantage point, right after the gun has fired.

@alexandratheavenger3436 Год назад

Conrad deserved to spend the rest of his life in prison for starting a huge, bloody war.

@boffinboy100 6 лет назад

Have you done a special on the Russian volunteer unit that served on the Western Front with the French? I've only heard it mentioned in a Russian Doc series about WWI, and apparently to be Marshall of the USSR Malinovsky was in it. There was also a mini-revolution there, with I think French troops being forced to fight the unit that had fought alongside them. Seems it would be an interesting topic for a special if you could find more info

@hjp14 6 лет назад

I don't know if there was a full episode but that Russian expeditionary force was mentioned in one or more episodes, possibly in the special they did on the French Army mutinies or one of the episodes about the Russian Revolutions.

@rabihrac 6 лет назад

Henri Gouraud was perhaps the only one-armed general of WW1 because he lost his right hand during the Dardanelles campaign in 1915. But he's so famous in the Middle-East for being the High Commissioner of France to Lebanon & Syria after the Great War.

@happy-go-commie 6 лет назад

Rabih R There is another one-armed general from France during The Great War -- General Paul Pau. He lost his lower right arm in the Franco-Prussian War. He was recalled from retirement in 1914 and led an army to fight in Alsace.

@rabihrac 6 лет назад

Thank you Algernop Krieger for sharing with me/us what you know about one-armed generals of WW1.

@rabihrac 6 лет назад

Hey guys ! Do you know other generals who lost arms or legs or other body parts & still at service during the Great War ?

@jcb8014 6 лет назад

Brilliant dramatic episode (especially the end)

@YusufRaul 6 лет назад

I finaly catched up! 200 episodes worth it

@Elmarby 6 лет назад

I had a fairly decent knowledge of WW1 before this series but watching these videos every week really drives home how grim it looked for the allies even so close to their ultimate victory. Only now the war starts beginning to turn in favour of the Entente. This week to week dripfeed of new events really paints a fascinating picture of the war one doesn't get from reading books. Thanks again to the whole The Great War team!

@RestitutorEuropa Год назад

Yeah this channel really puts in perspective how much of a stalemate this war was and how close the central powers could’ve won at any point other than the last half of the last year of the war. Even the Axis powers were never this close.

@marshallgaunt1801 6 лет назад

Hey guys, a couple of years ago I asked what you thought about the book: The Myth of the Great War how Germany won the battles and America saved the Allies. You told me that no one on the team had read it. Has someone had the chance to read it? If so, what is your opinion on it? Thanks so much for the wonderful channel.

@kurtgittler506 6 лет назад

Great book, the first that I read in WWI, actually.

@onedingshort 6 лет назад

Surely any book with How America saved the Allies in the title would be would rank alongside how snoopy killed the Red Baron in terms of historical accuracy!

@DILLONEKR 6 лет назад

Be great for The great war to be out on DVD or Netflix

@lonewanderer5515 6 лет назад

When i gets to the point of the wars end i hope yous continue this series by discussing the world post war. Keep up the amazing work love it.

@peterlynch1458 6 лет назад

What was the plan for the soldiers in the front line of an in depth defense? Were they supposed to pull back before the enemy reached them? Or hold out until the counter attack came? At 1:36 Indy says that the Germans killed what defenders were in the front line trench. But surely, it wasn't expected in the French planning that these men would be killed or captured, right?

@chaimmarks2663 6 лет назад

guys I'm calling it, I think the Marne is going to be the next big river war scene even bigger then the Isonzo river

@HaNNibal97smiTH 6 лет назад

Bigger than the Isonzo?? Impossible

@indianajones4321 6 лет назад

Massimiliano Palladini if Conrad and Cadorna are pitted against each other then yeah

@stephenbritton9297 6 лет назад

Finally pulled out my Great-Uncle's WW1 victory medal to check the clasps. Based on the clasps, he was present at 2nd Marne, or Aisle-Marne as the clasp is labeled.

@Rafael112able 3 года назад

Rest in Peace, citizen Romanov.

@podemosurss8316 6 лет назад

Interesting trivia: one of the officers on the defense of Bakú was Semion Budyonni, who would later form the 1st Cavalry Army of the Red Army and was one of the five original Marshals of the USSR in 1935.

@ricklolkema3340 6 лет назад

Also this was the first time that i heard of that douglas macArthur fought in the first ww.Atleast he got the experience from it that would help in the second ww.

@muskyelondragon 6 лет назад

That was a powerful closing monologue.

@friedchickenandmonarchism4668 6 лет назад

Alexei was the rightful Tsar under the fundamental laws of Russia. Nicholas II's abdication of his son violated the fundamental laws. Therefore, the Soviets did murder the de jure Tsar, even if he held no de facto power.